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...four demonstrators, members of the Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine, distributed neon yellow fliers denouncing owner Hillel Stavis for pulling financial support from WBUR, a public radio station in Boston that some activists claim harbors anti-Israel bias...
...said that by cutting financial backing to the station, Stavis is threatening the media’s ability to provide a forum for debate on Israeli government policy...
...ancestor--which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning and the consumption of art in the city, rather as the ownership of a local TV station might help magnify the image of a determined and self-centered mayor...
...military. But now they are falling out over who should run the country and how, not least because many former rebels are jobless and disenfranchised, and feel cheated by the new government. Recent weeks have seen a bomb threat on a Dili hotel, a mob attack on a police station in the eastern town of Baucau, and a brawl between army cadets and policemen. "There was a political group behind this incident," Alkatiri aide Ricardo Robeiro said of last week's riots...
...speed, driving across three fields before hitting the open road. There was no need to hurry. Russborough House's sole security guard was in another wing of the house - and anyway, he is in his seventies and would never have been a match for the thieves. The nearest police station, 4 km away in Blessington, is closed at night. And the district patrol car on duty was based in Baltinglass, 26 km away. By the time the police arrived the gang was long gone. As if all of that wasn't embarrassing enough, this was the fourth time...